.org forums instead of mailing list?

[marc_scirocco at sympatico.ca (Marc Scirocco Québec)]

Then we go back to the good ol'days of TTY terminals and 2400 modems to read
Rec.Alt.Auto.Makers.Volkswagen.Watercooled

Cheers.

Marc
'83 Scirocco
'88 Scirocco Slegato

Useless info: A lamp crashed on my old PC keyboard, and the "c" was not
working anymore so I replaced my keyboard with this 25$ microsoft kwyboard,
and instead of "click click click", I make "thump thump thump", when I type.
And it is really cool. It makes me want to write useless posts. :)

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]De la part de Tyler P.
> Envoy? : 23 juin, 2003 19:48
> ? : 'Scirocco List'
> Objet : RE: .org forums instead of mailing list?
>
>
> It seems that most people now just think of newsgroups as
> something that's
> in a web browser.  If you want hands on experience you can access
> Microsoft's free news server.  Just use Outlook Express.  Go
> to Tools >
> Accounts.  Click the Add button and Select News.
>
> Insert any name and click next
> Insert anything thing for email address (I recommend not
> using an email
> address here) and click next
> Enter news.microsoft.com for the server name and click next
> Click finish
>
> You will be asked if you want to download news groups from
> the server you
> just added, click Yes.
>
> Subscribe to a group like Microsoft.public.windowsxp.general by double
> clicking it or selecting it and clicking the subscribe button.
> Click OK or close to get out of the group list browser.
>
> On the left hand window select the news group and a list of
> messages will
> download.
>
> Welcome to the world of real newsgroups!  Established for your viewing
> pleasure since the internet was invented by al gore and only recently
> bastardized by html for advertising purposes :o(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tyler P.
> Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 4:38 PM
> To: 'Scirocco List'
> Subject: RE: .org forums instead of mailing list?
>
> This just furthers my hatred of http based newsgroups...
> newsgroups should
> all be nntp based... that means that you can open them in
> most email readers
> such as outlook express and it looks like your just doing
> something legit.
>
> Here's an example of what newsgroups should look like...
> www.uberzip.com/newsgroup.jpg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Heh, great point Jeff about the work thing!
>
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